The Astonishing Color of After - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Emily X. R. PanAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2019-03-19Pages:480
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780316464017ISBN-10:316464015UPC:9780316464017Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, Social ThemesBook Topic:United States, Death, Grief, Bereavement, SuicideAward:2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book - Young Adult Literature AwardSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCQNZPY4WW
A Time Magazine 100 Best YA Books of All Time Selection A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life. Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a stunning and heartbreaking novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love. "Emily X.R. Pan's brilliantly crafted, harrowing first novel portrays the vast spectrum of love and grief with heart-wrenching beauty and candor. This is a very special book."- John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and Turtles All the Way Down
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Little, Brown Books for Young ReadersISBN-13:9780316464017ISBN-10:316464015UPC:9780316464017Book Category:Young Adult FictionBook Subcategory:People & Places, Social ThemesBook Topic:United States, Death, Grief, Bereavement, SuicideAward:2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book - Young Adult Literature AwardSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCQNZPY4WW
Emily X.R. Pan currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but was originally born in the Midwestern United States to immigrant parents from Taiwan. She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine, and a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at Djerassi. She is the author ofThe Astonishing Color of After and An Arrow to the Moon. Visit Emily online at exrpan.com, and find her on Twitter and Instagram: @exrpan.
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
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🏆 2019 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book - Young Adult Literature Award
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